Healthcare is in the midst of a cyber security war with 81 percent of healthcare organizations reporting they have been compromised by a cyber-attack, such as phishing, in the past two years, and only half believing they are adequately prepared for future attacks, according to a 2015 KPMG survey. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services documented that hackers accessed more than 110 million patient health records in 56 major cybersecurity attacks in 2015. Imprivata Confirm ID enables fast, secure authentication to help safeguard healthcare enterprise workflows against hacking, creating a secure, auditable chain of trust, wherever, whenever, and however users interact with patient records, hospital financial data, and other sensitive information.

“As healthcare goes digital, critical clinical workflows are using simple, sometimes generic user names and passwords to provide access, making patient information easily vulnerable to hacking,” said Omar Hussain, president and CEO of Imprivata. “Imprivata’s commitment to our customers is to provide innovative authentication solutions that are seamlessly integrated into the care delivery process. I’m excited that we are building on the phenomenal success we saw with Imprivata Confirm ID in its first year for EPCS by expanding the platform to medical devices and remote access. Our medical device partnership with Capsule is the first of many to show how we can enable our customers to have one user experience for all of their strong authentication needs.”

“A single, centralized authentication management platform improves security and compliance auditing across the enterprise by enabling better control over how, when, and where users interact with patient records and other sensitive information,” said Aaron Miri, CIO of Walnut Hill Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. “At the same time, giving users fast, convenient authentication options ensures no disruption to workflows and gives providers more time to focus on patient care. Healthcare organizations must place the security of patient information as one of the top technological imperatives. Healthcare CIO’s must use every weapon in their arsenal to protect patient information and this is especially true of the vulnerable medical devices in the dispersed and mobile clinical environment of care.”